Setting environment variables.

[Cameron Laird]

In article <37BDB88C.212EC063 at starmedia.net>,
Andrew Csillag  <andrew at starmedia.net> wrote:
>Oliver White wrote:
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>> I'm running GNU/Linux, is there an issue with processes... eg, after
>> running my python program as a child process, will the changes to the
>> environment variable affect it's parent (the *term)? (suspecting no) Is
>> there annother way to set the parent's?
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>You would be correct, changing environment variables in a child process
>won't affect the parents environment variables.  A way to do it is have
>the child process print the new value of the environment variable to
>stdout and have the parent read this value (probably using os.popen or
>similar) and set its environment accordingly.
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What's traditional for Unix programmers working within
{sh,bash,ksh,...} is to
  eval `my_env_setting_app`
at the command prompt.
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